14:30 Welcome by DAI director Gabriëlle Schleijpen
14:40 Binna Choi: Eurasian Commons 
15:10 Barcelona rift with the DAI Planetary Campus Factory workshop participants
15:20 You Mi: Silk Roads, Tributary Networks and Old and New Imperialism
16:00 Barcelona rift with the DAI Planetary Campus Factory workshop participant
16.10 break
16:20 Nikolay Smirnov: Left wing Eurasianism: returning of the Universalism “Living in the name of the Commons”
17:00 Barcelona rift with the DAI factory workshop participants
17:10 Pegy Zali in the conversation with Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
18:00 Barcelona rift with the DAI Planetary Campus Factory workshop participan
18.10 break
18:20 Sung Hwan Kim with screening of Summer Days in Keijo – written in 1937 (2007, 17 min)
19:00 Barcelona rift with the DAI Planetary Campus Factory workshop participants
19:10 Unmapping Eurasia (Pathways drawing)
19:30 Drinks

Eurasia, in its most simplistic term, is a landmass that embraces a vast space between a western end of Europe and an eastern end of Asia. Taking this notion of Eurasia beyond the tropes of West and East, however, promises an exploratory, open-ended journey into one of the most complex thinkings which questions existing borders and distinctions in all dimensions such as the geographical, cultural, political, and social ones– and in turn calls for new connections and pathways including the cosmic, geologic and spiritual dimensions.

Eurasian Steps in Athens focuses on (de-)constructing the city as a “Eurasian gateway”, from where the Hellenistic culture was spread from Europe to middle Eurasia, as well as serving as a node point for transcultural dialogues in various periods in history. Binna Choi and You Mi, two initiators of Unmapping Eurasia, along with Russian artist/curator Nikolay Smirnov will map out aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic Eurasian projects in the past and present, and then unpack their ambitions, pitfalls, and legacies – from Russia’s right-wing Eurasianism to the lesser known left-wing Eurasianism, from imperial Chinese tributary system and decentralised trade networks to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The contrapuntal narratives will be provided by Pegy Zali (from Athens-based collective Kernel) in conversation with Athens based curator Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, both founding members of The Laboratory for the Urban Commons which, through its research and artistic projects, probes at the material strata of the current infrastructure and logistical projects. This will resonate with the presentation by New York-based Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim who conjures perspectives on labor, movement and landscape in his current research into the rarely traced history of migration in Asian minor in the United States, that offers itself an allegorical potential for Eurasia, if not challenging its boundary. Ultimately, the Roaming Assembly iteration of Eurasian Steps, with artists, researchers and Dutch Art Institute participants stages an image of a “slower Silk Road” envisioned by the French anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus. They will perform variations, disruptions and contingencies around the narrative of shared histories in Europe and Asia. And with that, an acute sense of ethics or heightened consciousness comes to the fore – resonating the thinking of Reclus: how can the humanity’s collective self-awareness form one body with the planet itself?

Practical information
Roaming Assembly #22: EURASIAN STEPS
Date: June 3, 2018
Time: 14.30 - 19.30h

Followed by a communal dinner by Options Foodlab to which you are warmly invited. If you wish to join, please send an email to Nikos Doulos (N.Doulos@artez.nl) before June 1st. Costs are 10 euro (dinner and a glass of wine) which can be paid in cash and on sight to Nikos.
Location: State of Concept, Mpotsari Tousa 19, Athina 117 41, Greece.

Between May 11 and July 2, 2018 DAI and State of Concept will merge programs. Beginning with the exhibition "A Case Of Perpetual No" of artist and DAI alumna Yota Ioannidou, a co-production. On the two days prior to Roaming Assembly#22 you are welcome to join us for COOP SUMMIT 2018, where seven study groups will meet the public at various locations in Athens.
About Planetary Campus | Roaming Assembly
Planetary Campus is an innovative conceptual space (without walls) where the MA curriculum "DAI Art Praxis" meets with a wide variety of external parties. A welcoming space where we want to host a fleeting, "affective community", where we generously share art and research, where complexity can be embraced and intellectual intra-actions are fostered, aiming to endow our praxes, wherever they are operational. As an infrastructure Planetary Campus is the container for several activities initiated by the DAI.
One of them is the Roaming  Assembly, a recurring public symposium scheduled to take place once a month, functioning as it were as the DAI-week's 'centerfold' event. This state-of-the-art speculative and hybrid program explores specific themes and topics of contemporary relevance to the thinking of art in the world today. 
Although closely interlinked with the DAI's curriculum, Roaming Assembly editions are not conceived as plain extensions of the regular DAI classes and seminars, but rather envisioned as sovereign happenings, designed to mobilize our bodies, our intelligences.

Initiator and curator-in-chief Planetary Campus: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Senior coordinator Planetary Campus: Nikos Doulos
Documentation: Silvia Ulloa; see our Video Archive 
Communication design: Lauren Alexander/Foundland

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